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David Harbour, who plays police chief Jim Hopper, begins reading a full-on, balls-out speech, calling the award “a call to arms from our fellow craftsmen and women to go deeper, and through our art, to battle against fear . . . by revealing intimate truths to remind folks that when they feel broken and afraid, they are not alone.”

As the crowd rises, and his child co-stars jump up and down beside him, and his adult co-star Winona Ryder makes bug-eyed reaction faces for the ages, he builds to a crescendo: “We will repel bullies. We will shelter freaks and outcasts. . . . We will get past the lies. We will hunt monsters. And when we are at a loss amidst the hypocrisy and casual violence of certain individuals . . . we will punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the weak and the marginalized and the disenfranchised.”

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While @realDonaldTrump is wrapping up the strangest, most aggressive first week in U.S. presidential history, Hollywood is using its awards season platform to double down on its liberalism. First Meryl Streep’s speech at the Golden Globes, then the pussy-hatted winners at Saturday’s Producers Guild Awards and now Harbour’s barnburner. Can’t wait to see the rally at the Oscars.

The 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards aired on Global TV. Johanna Schneller is a media connoisseur who zeroes in on pop culture moments. She usually appears Monday through Thursday.

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